Taking another look at Idaho's most famous poet/conspiracy theorist

Emmett author looks back to the future with retro story

By Brandon Nolta

There you are, a maverick captain in a humans-only Galactic Federation. You're chafing at the bit, because the Federation keeps lonely humanity fenced within the Perimeter, past which ships are not allowed. Weapons are illegal, exploration is illegal, and you feel spiritually choked by the GF. Suddenly, a signal is received from a planet far outside the Perimeter where a ship was lost decades earlier. What do you do?

Bei Lounge opened May 18 in what was once Yen Ching Bakery.

Theresa May quits, nearly 230,000 Idahoans will hit the road this weekend for a rather damp Memorial Day, Boise School District classes are out for the summer and critics lambaste Disney's remake of Aladdin.